News from the GlassFish Community

JSR 299 - WebBeans is Dead. Long Live Java Contexts and Dependency Injection!

Although I already mentioned the
News on Friday
I think it deserves its own entry with a more noticeable title.

WebBeans is no more;
the specification created by the
JSR 299
Expert Group (under Gavin King) has been revised substantially
and has been renamed to Java Context and Dependenty Injection.
Perhaps a less catchy name but, as Gavin indicates, this has been done...

...to better reflect the fact that the focus of 299 is the definition of services that apply to all EE component types, rather than the creation of a new component model

Yeah! Java Context and Dependenty Injection is by fair a better name than the ambiguous Web Beans. I've just learned the Spring Framework and if the API will be similar to it then we should expect a great improvement in how we build JEE applications.